1)The Constitutional amendment that prohibited denying voting rights to people based on race or color is the

A) / Twelfth Amendment.
B) / Fifteenth Amendment.
C) / Thirteenth Amendment.
D) / Fourteenth Amendment.

2)The purpose of the Freedman's Bureau was to

A) / provide 40 acres and a mule for each slave.
B) / gain the vote for millions of former slaves.
C) / provide work, education, and relief for former slaves.
D) / get radical Republicans in positions of power in the South.

3)In American history, the term "Reconstruction" refers to

A) / problems associated with the transformation to an industrial economy.
B) / the admission of Western territories to the U.S. as either Free or Slave states.
C) / federal government intervention in the former Confederate states in order to monitor the treatment of former slaves.
D) / the establishment of a new system of agriculture in the western states and territories based on industrial machinery.

4)The era of Radical Reconstruction can be seen as a failure because

A) / it prevented Southern states from holding elections.
B) / it punished all people in the Southern states equally.
C) / it resulted in the severing of ties with former European allies.
D) / it did not adequately protect former slaves from having their rights violated.

5)The purpose of Jim Crow laws was to

A) / prevent black citizens from obtaining employment.
B) / limit the religious activities of southern citizens.
C) / create as much division between the races as possible.
D) / make it illegal for black children to receive an education.

6)By the end of the Reconstruction era, most African-Americans in the United States

A) / had received a free college education paid for by wealthy northerners.
B) / found themselves owners of the land their ancestors had worked on as slaves.
C) / began to migrate in massive numbers to the rural South to pursue farming jobs.
D) / found themselves increasingly left out of the political process because of poll taxes and literacy tests.

7)What term describes a white southerner who supported northern Reconstruction policies after the Civil War?

A) / carpetbagger
B) / radical
C) / scalawag
D) / unionist

8)Which of these BEST describes the Compromise of 1877?

A) / Johnson is almost impeached and Jim Crow ends.
B) / Hayes becomes President and Reconstruction ends.
C) / Tilden sued Hayes for control of the presidency.
D) / Grant becomes President and Reconstruction begins.

9)Which statement is true regarding the end of the Reconstruction era?

A) / By 1877, every southern state was controlled by the Republican party.
B) / By 1877, Democrats had regained political power in all southern states.
C) / By 1877, African-Americans in the South had achieved political and social equality.
D) / By 1877, the federal government had achieved all of its goals in the reconstruction of southern politics and society.

10)Booker T. Washington was most known for being

A) / one of the founders of the NAACP.
B) / the founder of Tuskegee Institute.
C) / one of the designers of Washington, DC.
D) / the first African-American on the Supreme Court.